Artemis

Numbers in parentheses are issue numbers. If they do not have a colon, they're from the second series. If they are noted as (3:something), they're from the third series.

(90) First appearance. We find that she was 14 when the Banas invaded Paradise.

In 1996 Artemis starred in a forgettable T&A mini-series, Artemis: Requiem. Well, the one thing we can come away with is that she fought her way out of Hell and is now feeling much better. In it she also lost any virginity she may have had (she was married to a demon prince), and showed that she's hot for guys, the more macho, the better. And oh yeah, the "Requiem" part was the cape name she took since she was no longer Wonder Woman. Read the synopsis if you have an iron stomach.

164: Artemis uses a reconfigured Invisible Jet -- it's an overly-ornate flying platform now -- to travel to Paradise at Penelope's summons. On the way, Artemis passes through an open-air museum: "LOOK at this! Practically a SHRINE to Wonder Woman! Have these Amazons begun worshipping THEMSELVES?... Has everyone FORGOTTEN that Hippolyta only took up the mantle of Wonder Woman as PENANCE for abusing her royal power... which resulted not only in the DEATH of her daughter, but MINE as well?"

Diana rejects Hippolyta's offer to help circumvent a coming armageddon and brings Artemis along instead. When they arrive in Gotham City, Artemis tactfully suggests that perhaps Hippolyta's greater power and experience would serve Diana better than Artemis's skills. When Diana answers that she is merely putting her mother in her place, Artemis -- again, quite tactfully -- shuts up. Diana gives her instructions to team with Huntress to subdue Maxie Zeus and his acolytes. Somewhere along the line, Artemis is given a communications device to link her to Oracle.

When Artie meets up with Huntress, both draw their bows on each other as if they've never heard of each other (though Diana had just assigned Artemis to team with Huntress).

165: Artie and Huntress now aim towards Maxie Zeus as he fires up his acolytes against them. Artemis gets off one arrow (we don't see it hit anyone) before she wades into the fight with her fists -- and her mouth. She and Huntress debate religion and the choice of gods while fighting the mob.

It is Artemis who finally suggests that they work together amicably. Artemis is an atheist. She reminds Huntress that Diana's gods are not hers; that her tribe abandoned them long ago.

"How do you just... ABANDON your gods?" Huntress asks.

Artemis says, "It's EASY -- When they abandon YOU."

166: Continuing their theological debate, Artemis tells Huntress, "I believe that all living creatures are desperate to CONNECT with something BIGGER, Huntress, something that will fill the emptiness within their SOULS... and in their desperation they'll accept almost ANYTHING."

When Cassie the Wonder Girl arrives to save them, Artemis gently stops her from entering into an argument with Huntress. Later, Artie's cobra venom-laced arrows kill the Chimera.

167: As the heroes go crazy/delusional because of god-woven fear, the unaffected Artemis tells Huntress, "I have MY faith, and you have YOURS. Use it to give you power OVER your fear." Artemis easily (according to her) survives a maddened punch thrown by Cassie. (Though Cassie's other punches merely give Robin a black eye.)

168: At New Bana-Mighdall, Artemis directs her people after sabotage has hit some drilling operations that were to be part of an aqueduct, since the Banas don't have an adequate water supply. When an artisan returns a repaired bow to her, she says, "I told you NO machine gun could match the glory of a finely strung hunter's bow." Akila runs up to inform her that Diana and Donna Troy have called a conference concerning hostile actions taken by the Banas.

Artie tells the sisters, "We have NO support from the queen who SHUNTED us to this section of the island, only the constant AGGRESSION of the Themysciran Amazons to deflect!... Do you believe, as your mother does, that we're nothing more than BARBARIANS? SAVAGES?" She says that she would never support civil war. She then accuses Diana of not having "TRULY been involved in DIPLOMACY for YEARS." When the queen arrives, Artie declares, "You're NOT my queen, Hippolyta. And you're NOT welcome here." She accuses the queen of not spending enough time on PI, and says that her presence will make the debates worse. That night Artie meets with Shim'Tar Akila, who has discovered that all items of sabotage across the island are of Themysciran manufacture, and bear the inscription "Ariadne." Artie points out that the name can also mean "Intruder" or "Untrustworthy," and turns to face an ambush of machine gun-toting Themyscirans, who catch them in crossfire.

169: Artemis hurls herself upon Hippolyta and her horse as Hippolyta leads her Themies against the Banas. She tells the queen that the Banas are not her enemies. She mentions that she learned a lot as Wonder Woman as the two face each other. We see a flashback montage of Artemis facing down the incredibly unskilled squad of machine gunners who had failed to hit her (and only managed to slightly injure Akila) and who fell beneath her fists and feet instead.

Now Artie tells the queen that Akila has passed on the title of Shim'Tar to her because she didn't feel she was worthy of the trust Hippolyta had placed in her. As Hippolyta pounds her (the two appear for some reason to be equally matched as they trade blows) Artemis tells the queen she must take responsibility for letting her Amazons drift so far from Gaea's path and for treating the Banas "like camel fodder even after we CHANGED!" When she asks Hippolyta, "How can you continue to wear that [WW] armor-- and not UNDERSTAND what it REPRESENTS?!", Hippolyta comes to her senses and the two, plus the princesses and Fury, face down Magala/Ariadne to end the war.

(WW:OWAW #1) Penelope, Artemis and Niobe inform Philippus that Hippolyta has been killed by Imperiex.

191: Gets in a great battle against the monster Scylla, using a rocket launcher. Diana-god augmented the monster's abilities so that it turns the Amazons who have attacked it into statues. Artemis (the Amazon) arrives with a rocket launcher she was going to demonstrate, and instead uses it to attack the beast. She takes out a few of the heads of the monster, but Diana-god stuns her and has the beast turn her into a gold statue as a reward for her warrior spirit.

Trinity: I don't think I'm going to cover this three-part 2003 miniseries in this index because it's blatantly out of continuity (though it was touted as being the True Story of how Wonder Woman first met Superman and Batman. Too bad the writer apparently forgot to do any Wondie research). But seeing as how I don't have a costume index for Artie, I'll include the "costume" the character named Artemis from Trinity wore. It's merely a curiosity.

(208) We learn that Artemis' new title, "Polemarch," translates as war leader, said to be similar to the USPres' "Commander-in-Chief" title. She is introduced as "Her Excellency" at a presidential reception. Her country's name is given as the "Republic of Themyscira."

ARTEMIS ARROW TALLY
re: HUMANS

Artemis' favorite weapon is her bow. How many times has she been seen to fire one at a human? Let's keep track.

164: She aims at Huntress. Doesn't fire.

165: Shoots in the general direction of evil acolytes. We don't see the arrow hitting anything, nor do we hear a shout of pain.